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These Machines Keep Me Alive
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Just a brief aside about the sampler
This was a machine about the size of a VCR
That allowed its user to record any sound into it
For quick playback and arrangement
With a sampler, any drumbeat
Any guitar riff, any sound that could be recorded
Could be used as part of a new composition
A new contextualization
Nowadays almost all commercially produced music
Has been at least in part realized with a sampler
But electronic based music genre has
Pioneered the creative use of samplers
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Older bits of sampling were appropriated
Perhaps under the assumption of there being able to be
Really used in the spirit of the pledge to new forms
In other words, sampling was not seen as really rehashing past sounds
But as an attempt to make new from something old
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Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion
Each new creator building on the works of those who came before
By virtue of being able to freely appropriate on the musical past
To make new combinations and thus new meanings
The story demonstrates that a society quote
"Free to borrow and build upon the past
Is culturally richer than a controlled one"
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful
As under protecting it
Culture is impossible without rich public domain
Nothing today, like nothing since we attained fire
Is generally new
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Make new from something old
An artistic strategy as time honored as creative expression itself
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